The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
MICHELLE OBAMAFor me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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